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Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
I’m literally sick of this much AI
I started to write this blog post on Dec. 30, being triggered by one too many proofs of AI madness. Meanwhile, I found one more video to discuss, so I'm…
SJVN and his dogs got soft-headed
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is possibly the most famous business and technology journalist ever. I used to read him in BYTE and PC Magazine in the heyday of the PC. Lately,…
SPECIAL: Migration from Linux delayed; stranded on MX/Debian
① On Sept. 21, I said that Linux will soon be history for me. ② On Oct. 13, I found more proofs that Linux has become a joke. ③ On…
SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!
In my previous post, I ended a sentence like this: “the first documentary I’m going to suggest you watch.” Later, I suddenly asked myself: why did I use this construct?…
📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…
No, this blog wasn’t hijacked. This comes from the author of 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits. But this is a public service to those…
One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
I’m bored to death by such pieces of crap: 98 minutes of chit-chatting. As if life weren’t already too short! AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
Insights into the AI madness — with studies, tips (UPDATED)
Since I restored my Twitter account (almost two years after being suspended, but I still maintain that I like to see tits only when I'm supposed to see tits), my…
The magic of Amazon’s Kiro: my 1st vibe-coded PyQt6 app!
The recently released Amazon Kiro, even if it's just a preview, is the latest shit in AI-assisted software development. I happened to download it while it was still possible (now…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, D-zeu, AI și apocalipsa
There is also an English version of this interview: 📰 Exclusive Q Magazine. Dr. Martin Jan Stránský, neurologist, author of the book “The Rise and Fall of the Human Mind”:…
Goșu despre războiul ce va să vie
Nu știu cum se face că am aflat despre emisiunea „În fața ta” din 8 martie de-abia pe 15 martie. De fapt, știu. Nu m-am uitat nici pe site, nici…
Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
I had a strange experience with Claude yesterday, and it made me reanalyze the reliability and the practical availability of the main AI chatbots freely available online. It’s by no…
Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing
I never thought I’d be doing that, especially as it doesn’t make sense on a €400 laptop that lacks a proper GPU and VRAM: i3-1215U with Intel graphics (ADL GT2)…
🤖 AI: from LLMs to Enslavement ● ChatGPT lies about its Search!
When I wrote my previous post about AI, triggered by DeepSeek’s success, I did touch most aspects that I considered relevant for the current AI bubble, centered on LLMs and…
Chatting with the 🤖 Overlord: DeepSeek on LLM AIs and itself
Initially, I wanted to write a long and complex feature on the generative AI engines, only to realize, as time was passing by, that such a task was becoming increasingly…
News of Apocalypse from The Atlantic
In the version of this blog from May 2007 to Feb. 2009, most of my posts (roughly four per day!) consisted of links to external articles, including lots of political…
Economie și finanțe: Un contabil bun poate fi pe alocuri și prost
Am aflat despre tovarășul Radu Georgescu, unul din numeroșii Radu Georgescu, din rebutul de presă românească. Respectivul a fost citat cu câteva observații bune, toate preluate de pe Facebook. Doar…